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Compassion fatigue, sometimes known as “vicarious trauma” or “secondary traumatic stress,” affects people who are exposed to the traumatic suffering of others, such as doctors, nurses, ...

Researchers first identified compassion fatigue in the 1970s when they recognised certain psychological symptoms among health care and social service workers. The term “compassion fatigue” was ...

Meanwhile, researchers with the Tulane University School of Social Work are conducting a survey to determine the breadth of the compassion fatigue phenomenon among medical professionals fighting ...

Compassion fatigue can affect your ability to do your work or complete daily activities — at least temporarily. There are signs that can indicate that you, or someone you know or work with ...

High emotional demands and confrontations in person-contact jobs raise the risk for type 2 diabetes, with the risk growing ...

Several factors are contributing to the increasing prevalence of empathy fatigue. The blurring boundaries between work and home, global crises, social upheaval, and economic uncertainty all play a ...

Health-care workers can mitigate against compassion fatigue by making time for themselves, enforcing work boundaries, and creating a better work-life balance. Strategies such as mindfulness ...

In the nearly 50 years since Figley began researching these concepts, compassion fatigue has been primarily studied among people in “caring professions” like health care and social work, who ...

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